Szabolcs Deák
Intermediate Macroeconomics 1, Fall 2018
This is a second year undergraduate course. The course first introduces students to the mainstream 3-equation monetary macro model. Then, it integrates the financial system into the model to analyze the recent finacial crisis.
Textbook(s): W. Carlin and D. Soskice, Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability, and the Financial System. Oxford University Press (2014)
Macroeconomics, Fall 2017
This was a postgraduate course (masters level). The course introduces students to the tools of dynamic optimization to solve modern micro-founded macroeconomic models. Topics studied include dynamic optimization in both centralized and decentralized economies, consumption under uncertainty, consumption and risky assets, and the Solow growth model and its empirical applications.
Textbook(s):M. Wickens, ,Macroeconomic Theory: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach, Princeton University Press (2008); D. Romer, Advanced Macroeconomics, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill (2012)
Topics in Macroeconomics, Spring 2017
This was a final year undergraduate course. The course introduces students to the tools of dynamic optimization to solve modern micro-founded macroeconomic models. Topics studied include dynamic optimization in both centralized and decentralized economies, the Solow growth model, and R&D Models of Growth.
Textbook(s):M. Wickens, ,Macroeconomic Theory: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach, Princeton University Press (2008); D. Romer, Advanced Macroeconomics, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill (2012)
Topics in Macroeconomic Theory, Fall 2016-2017
This was a second year PhD course that I co-taught with two other lecturers. I was teaching three lectures on Heterogeneous agent models based on my own notes and various papers.
Intermediate Macroeconomics 2, Spring 2013
This was a second year undergraduate course. The course introduces students to the mainstream new Keynesian monetary macro model and its applications to monetary policy.
Textbook(s):P.B. Sørensen and H.J. Whitta-Jacobsen, Introducing Advanced Macroeconomics: Growth and Business Cycles, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill (2010).